| abstract |
Poromeric web materials are continuously manufactured by applying to a thin layer of ice crystals a textile fibrous structure and an aqueous solution or dispersion of A. polyethylenically unsaturated monomers having at least two polymerizable double bonds or mixtures of at least 0.1 percent w/w of such polyethylenically unsaturated monomers and monoethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable monomers and optionally high molecular weight polymers, or B. monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and high polymers having molecular weights of more than 10,000, Cooling the whole to such an extent that at least 50 percent of the water Crystallizes, irradiating the solidified structure with electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of less than 0.70 .mu.m to cause polymerization of the monomers, causing the structure to thaw, removing the material from the support and optionally washing the removed material, separating it from the water and finally drying it. |